Modeling declensions without declension features. The case of Russian
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Abstract
Abstract This paper presents an analysis of the Russian declension in Nanosyntax (Starke 2009, 2018). The analysis has two theoretically important aspects. First, it makes no reference to language-particular declension features. This allows one to maintain the idea that morphosyntactic features are drawn from a set provided by the UG, i.e., language invariant. The analysis also does not use contextual rules. In order to correctly pair the right ending with a particular root, the analysis only relies on specifying each marker for the features it spells out. The correct pairing of roots and affixes falls out from such a specification and the Nanosyntax model of spellout.
Topics & Concepts
Computer scienceSet (abstract data type)PairingInvariant (physics)LinguisticsRoot (linguistics)Natural language processingProgramming languageMathematicsPhysicsPhilosophyMathematical physicsQuantum mechanicsSuperconductivityNatural Language Processing TechniquesAuthorship Attribution and ProfilingSyntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation